Archive for Movie Reviews

Potpourri and Wonder Woman

==> Catholic readers in particular might want to take a look at this video for a school that is up your alley. ==> Von Pepe passes along this Gerry O’Driscoll post on the jobs conundrum. ==> Dan Sanchez’s review of Wonder Woman is a very thoughtful take, but I am going to disagree with him. […]

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Review of *Superman* (1978)

[NOTE: I wrote this review originally back around 2002. I don’t think it’s online anymore so I am reprinting it here on my blog.] I have long known that the original Superman (as well as its sequel) is a “perfect” movie (perfect casting, perfect directing, perfect music, perfect dialogue, etc.).  Recently I was bored out […]

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Bob Murphy Explains “Rio 2” to Stefan Molyneux

Please forgive the third-person title but I thought it was too funny to omit. Anyway, here’s Stefan’s review, which right now has 54,000 views. Since I think Stefan is unbelievably, inconceivably wrong-headed in it, I naturally respond.

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Potpourri

==> Dan Sanchez has a great review of the new Captain America movie. However, MAJOR SPOILERS. If you are borderline, I would strongly nudge you to go watch it; it was a lot better than I had hoped. Then after you watch it, read Dan’s review. ==> I was on the Power Trading Radio show […]

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Leadership in the Autobots vs. the Decepticons

I can’t remember what prompted it, but for some reason my son asked if we could watch the Transformers movie. And to be clear, I am talking about the Transformers movie, the animated one with Unicron, not the abomination with Shia LeBeowulf. (It should go without saying that if you weren’t into the cartoon Transformers, […]

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